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Portals

Drashya Kuruwa — Mon, 14 May 2018 10:49:04 +0000

Portals

Providing immediate access to customers’ service needs

Providing a Streamlined Experience Across All Channels

Advancements in technology have changed the approach and expectations of customer service. Providing a means for speaking to someone when needed is still an essential service that many businesses must provide, but self-service has emerged as the preferred choice for many people. This self-service approach means granting customers the ability to quickly access and receive information without direct involvement from businesses. This is more aligned with new expectations for companies to provide a streamlined experience across all channels. This means that the website, mobile app, customer portal, and physical location should all be in-sync with one another. Companies that can successfully accomplish this will receive high customer satisfaction.

Portals give the customer immediate access to their service needs and businesses benefit with a reduction in support costs. Customers are granted 24/7 access to make purchases and payments while businesses are open to many more opportunities for generating revenue. When portals are planned and implemented appropriately, they have a positive impact on an organisation’s productivity and IT customer satisfaction. A good self-service portal delivers tangible benefits to service desks, end users and the business as a whole.

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Our Proven Four Step Methodology

An increasing number of businesses are recognising the benefits of reliable and dedicated portals for improving the company’s overall brand image. Not only that, companies that want to stay ahead of the game need to adapt to the new ways of communication than just following the traditional rules that have defined customer service in the past. Portals provide customers with instant access to information, allow personalisation, and save valuable time and organisational resources. Consequently, 60% of businesses expect to implement portals within the next 12–18 months.

With more than twenty years’ experience partnering organisations to deploy digital initiatives, Arrk continues to lead the way in helping companies select and deliver innovative technology applications. Our user first approach centres our delivery methodology, which is a developed, proven and refined approach to solving complex business and technology problems, FAST.

Our broad, flexible methodology and toolset are capable of being adapted and shaped for a wide range of different Customer needs, whilst retaining at their heart a set of consistent, fundamental core principles.

We can help organisations address strategic change through our trade marked delivery pillars:

Discover & Design

Using our EmbArrk™ discovery methodology we comprehensively define and document the business requirements, which are then used as our guideline to scope and shape the required customer solution.

Build

With our Agile@Arrk™ development methodology, we combine flexible software engineering practices and expertise to deliver as fast as possible using our distributed development teams.

Release

Our software deployment services reduce the release time and makes the process error free. During this phase we consider not only the installation and configuration but also the environment we are deploying to.

Support & Evolve

Maintenance and evolving development ensures solutions are kept healthy to deal with changing technical and business environment and fines tunes all elements to improve system performance and to address vulnerabilities.

Improving Your Customers' Experience

Arrk has a track record of success in self-service portals that drive efficiency, reduce operational costs, encourage employee retention, and improve customer experience. At the heart of our offering are three core portal offerings:

Customer Portal

Customers have never been so connected, across social media and beyond. A dedicated portal allows you to engage with them 24/7. Responding quickly to customer demands increases satisfaction, improving retention. Signing enquiries off faster also helps reduce support costs.

Supplier Portal

You value the relationships you’ve built with suppliers. Offering a central access point keeps them engaged and happy. That relationship is a two-way street. Having partners share information using your portal reduces your admin burden. A competent supplier portal is also a shop window for your business. Including a registration process is a great way to land new suppliers.

Intranet / Employee Portal

Better internal communications begin with a bespoke intranet. Your virtual home should be your employees’ first port of call. The information they need is now just a click away, at any hour of the day, by web or mobile. Personalisation makes it a unique experience for each employee. Where one sees training options at log in, another is reminded to update staff details.

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Office 365

Drashya Kuruwa — Tue, 08 May 2018 14:10:37 +0000

Office 365

The future of office productivity and collaboration

Unleashing the benefits of collaboration

Addressing customer needs today requires collaborative efforts of all employees. Across your business all departments need to come together to provide a rich customer experience, critical in today’s rapidly changing and competitive environment. This is a challenge for many organisations as employees, workspaces and customer information might be trapped across multiple silos, separated by department, geography, and in many different tools.

Digital collaboration solutions are transforming the way in which organisations can engage customers in a unified manner through successfully connecting people, information, digital tools, and company communications in one convenient place.

Embracing digital collaboration, organisations are better equipped to empower employees, reduce misaligned data, limit disengagement, and drive collaboration to get things done. Through sharing knowledge and combining ideas with others, it helps to meet the pressures of customer demands and expectations.

Our proven four step methodology

Today’s digital collaboration platform provides a great deal of innovative capabilities, closely integrated with your business applications. The resulting digital workplace leads to engaged and productive employees as well as an innovative and enduring company culture.

With more than twenty years’ experience partnering with organisations to deploy digital initiatives, Arrk continues to lead the way. We help you to implement digital technology as well as drive transformative business change. Our extensive experience enables us to take a pragmatic approach, whether you’re looking to introduce a tactical solution into your business, or implement a strategic business change. Our user first approach centres our delivery methodology. Developed, proven and refined it helps to solve complex business and technology problems, FAST.

Our broad, flexible methodology and toolset are capable of being adapted and shaped for a wide range of customer needs, while retaining at the heart a set of consistent, fundamental core principles.

We can help organisations address strategic change through our trade marked delivery pillars:

Discover & Design

Using our EmbArrk™ discovery methodology we comprehensively define and document your business requirements, which are then used as our guideline to scope and shape the required customer solution.

Build

With our Agile@Arrk™ development methodology, we combine flexible software engineering practices and expertise to deliver as fast as possible using our distributed development teams.

Release

Support & Evolve

Maintenance and evolving development ensures solutions are kept healthy to deal with changing technical and business environment, and fines tunes all elements to improve system performance and to address vulnerabilities.

Enabling you to achieve a competitive advantage

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Microsoft Office 365 - Best in Class

To help you lead the way in organisational-wide improved productivity, efficiency and teamwork, Arrk delivers a best-in-class cloud-base centred on Microsoft’s Office 365 service bringing together the best tools for the way people work today.

Combining apps like Excel and Outlook with powerful cloud services like OneDrive and Microsoft Teams, Office 365 lets anyone create and share anywhere on any device.

More cost-effective than ever before, Office 365’s digital collaboration platform provides rapidly deployable innovative capabilities, which you can closely integrate to business applications, enabling you to drive…

Productive workforce

An employee centric digital workplace in which they can find information and knowledge quickly to get things done efficiently – and with the customer at the centre.

Engaged employees

Increased employee engagement through closer collaborative interactions, social connections, and more efficient company communications.

Efficient company communications

Leveraging traditional content displays and two-way social communication channels to get your message heard.

Successful cross-team projects

Cross-functional initiatives can get up and successfully run in minutes, wherever contributors are.

High-impact Innovation

As your collaborative open culture becomes the norm, you can unleash your organisation’s innovation potential.

Strong partner and customer community

Invite your partners, customers and community to engage and collaborate with you.

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